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VG247.comTue, 29 Jul 2014 08:36:38 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1By: Christopher Jackhttp://www.vg247.com/2013/07/29/it-pricing-inquiry-condemns-australia-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-516529
Mon, 29 Jul 2013 08:36:04 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=392663#comment-516529Yeah, some publishers on Steam are quite lazy & are still charging over double what the USA & Europe are charged. Just view this http://www.steamprices.com/au/topripoffs
Here’s an example: CoD:MW2- $89AUD, $19USD.
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Mon, 29 Jul 2013 07:41:41 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=392663#comment-516515This sort of behavior really ticked me off during the steam sale. When any Square Enix, Bethesda, 2K or Activision game went on sale they were nearly double of what the US were paying for due to the regional pricing.

But the thing I couldn’t wrap my head around was the fact that our transactions are still made in USD. So on top of paying nearly double the price we also had to make up for the weakness of the AUD (1$ AUD = 0.90c US).

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Mon, 29 Jul 2013 07:07:50 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=392663#comment-516505@2 games aren’t so bad if you import them from UK or price compare to the better retailers but I hear Brazil gets shafted just as bad as Aussies but I think with how long the USD and AUD were at level value it feels worse when your seeing the overpricing.
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Mon, 29 Jul 2013 05:49:52 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=392663#comment-516494Used to be in a relationship with an Aussie for a long time, lived there for awhile. The way the gamers there get shafted on pricing is insane to me. I used to buy my almost-brother-in-law games from back here in the US simply because of how much cheaper it was. Yeah there was sometimes the issue of region locks, but not always, we always did our homework.

I agree though, something needs to be done, I may not be fond of Aussies now (You folks can blame my ex for that :P) but Aussie gamers are getting screwed worse than any other land of gamers I’ve encountered.

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Mon, 29 Jul 2013 05:43:20 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=392663#comment-516490EB Games are the main ones behind overpricing games they will charge 100$ – 120$ for a next gen game but other retailers will charge a better 80$ – 90$ dollars I do buy my games at EB’s but I price compare to JB HIFI all the time, as for the online part steam do charge way over US prices on digital products that’s why I just buy on sale games on steam.

When it comes to IT products in Australia I think it might even be worse my ArmA community has a server hosted in the US for 60$ a month but to get an equal quality server in Australia costs 200$ at least mainly due to the bandwidth costs which leads into the next part Tellicom.

In Australia internet plans are terrible the main ISP is Telstra they own most of the infrastructure and have left the infrastructure in the stone age while charging other ISP’s heavy line rental, I have an OK internet connection for Australia but a terrible connection compared to the US right now the government is overhauling the internet infrastructure by replacing copper wire and the like with Fibre optic this is a bright light for Australian internet we just have to hope they don’t “hand the keys to the city” so to speak over to Telstra or another private ISP.

I am by no means an expert on any of the things I just spoke of so there may be some wrong facts in there but that is how things are to my understanding, feel free to correct.